Motivational Quotes

Truth

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza